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| Year of first release: 2013 | |
| Director: Cao Baoping | |
| Actors: Sophie Zhang Li, Guo Jinglin | |
| Country: CN | |
| Genre: Drama | |
| Conditions of visioning: 02.05.2014, Teatro nuovo, FEFF2014 | |
| Synopsis: A teenager is living with her grandparents because the parents are working on their career and they take care of a younger brother. To compensate for the lack of parental education, the father gives her a dog, Einstein. | |
| Review: The story could have been shot in Europe as well, as the problem of parents abandoning the kids for the education and pushing them for good marks at school exists also here. As in another movie seen in previous FEFF The equation of love and death, Cao Baoping depicts a normal life story affected by the modern social behaviour. Here the focus is on the child psychology. And what makes really a child become an adult. Nothing with travels, sex and drugs. The change is to accept oneself as such, to accept the others as they are and live with it. In that sense, it is an adult vision of the coming-of-age plot. The acting is not bad, but some exagerations from the main character Li Wan (Sophie Zhang) might be annoying. It is the second movie by Cao Baoping that I see and for which I feel there is a good directing and a good story, but something is missing. It might be the acting or as often in Chinese movies the too-long scenes. |
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Rating: 4 /10
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Einstein and Einstein (2013)
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I mostly agree with your review. It is true that parents delegating the education of their children and pushing them for good marks exist in Europe, but what I found interesting in this movie is that in China it seems to be the norm!
ReplyDeleteFor me the movie represents nothing more than the example of one teenagehood in China. Some scenes are indeed exagerated but I found others very strong and realistic, in particular the behavior of the father with respect to his daughter.
In any case I was already glad not to get bored by a 2-hour Chinese Drama, so my rating would rather be 5/10.